On 2015-07-08, Ian Eiloart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8 Jul 2015, at 09:45, Jon Gerdes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 08:34 +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >>> Apologies for cross posting. This question is about Exim and clamd. >>> Specifically, how can we deal with a clam daemon that’s unresponsive (for >>> five minutes) while updating rules. The obvious thing would be to wait a >>> bit longer rather than time out, but I can’t see a control for that. I have >>> some alternative suggestions, of which (3) below seems most promising, if >>> somewhat complicated. >>> >>> >> >> Straight off the top of my head without any research: >> >> Sounds like you need a cluster of ClamAV or multiple daemons that are >> updated at different times. Exim *may* be able to handle multiple >> daemons/sockets or you need a load balancer like HA Proxy to act as a >> front end. >> >> Cheers >> Jon > > Yes, that was my "(3) below". The docs say you can list multiple IP addresses, but not multiple UNIX sockets for this purpose.
for multiple addresses how about 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2 :) but first multiple sockets are worth trying. there's a chance that the documentation is wrong. > > -- > Ian Eiloart > Postmaster, University of Sussex > +44 (0) 1273 87-3148 > -- umop apisdn -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
